The Book of Haggai takes the burden of proof dilemma and just runs with it. The Book is a short one, OT-wise, but nonetheless offers a cautionary tale as to the dangers of abandoning the burden of proof in favor of a post-modernist "we're all right in our own way" philosophy; personified here in the prophet Haggai, who claims God came to him in a dream and told everybody to build him a house.

Context might be necessary here. In 586 BC the Babylonians conquered Judea. Temples were sacked and razed to the ground, palaces were destroyed and all the Jews who'd been happily living there at the time were carried off in chains back to Babylon, where I guess they were given a chance to enjoy local culture and museums.

In 535 BC Cyrus the Great conquered the hell out of Babylonia and told the Jews they could return to Judea, since they were crowding him and he wanted some "Cyrus time." Returning to a ravaged homeland after fifty years in exile gave Jews a fresh perspective on things, and the people of Judea decided to not live in fear of God for a little bit so they could concentrate on rebuilding their houses and finding usable drinking water.

As the months passed, their prophet Haggai started to notice everyone was pretty busy getting their lives back in order. Instead of sacrificing all of their best food to God, everybody was sort of starving, so they just ate it instead. This, Haggai decided, was a problem.

Realizing his followers were in danger of living their lives without worshipping him — sorry, God — Haggai had a sudden stroke of luck when, get this, God spoke directly through Haggai for a period of months, explaining how important it was for everybody to stop improving their standard of living and focus all their efforts on rebuilding the Lord's digs. Haggai was obviously no more than a mouthpiece for the Lord here. The fact that, as head God-to-the-people liaison, he moved into the new temple to live out his days as the voice of God while everyone else slept in shallow holes and ate each other's fingernails should be seen only as one of those weird coincidences.